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On February 5, 2013, former Canadian MP David Kilgour and international
human rights lawyer David Matas testified on their almost seven-year
investigation into illegal organ harvesting in China at the
International Human Rights Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee
of the Canadian Parliament.

The two investigators published reports concluding that the Chinese
regime is killing its own citizens, most of them Falun Gong adherents in
order to harvest their organs for profit.

David Matas, who is the honorary senior legal counsel of B'nai Brith Canada, has been investigating these crimes since 2006.

The conclusion of the investigation about the forced organ harvesting
conducted by the Communist regime in China sounded unbelievable when
first published. But in recent years more voices all around the world
confirm that Matas was right.

"One of the lessons
we’ve learned from the Holocaust is that human nature does not change,”
Matas stated to The Epoch Times. “What changes is the technology, but
the capacity for doing evil remains the same.”

"Waiting times for transplants of organs in China are days and
weeks. Everywhere else in the world, waiting times are years or
months... A short waiting time for deceased organ transplant means the
presence of a large bank of living organ sources ready to be killed in
order to assure such waiting times," says Matas.

On October 3, 2012, 106 Congress members sent Secretary of State
Clinton a letter asking her to release information about transplant
abuse in China that the US government might have in hand. The forced
organ harvesting in China was recently discussed in the European
parliament and various international fora.

Israel
has played a part in the international efforts to fight these bloody
crimes. Israel passed a law in March 2008 banning the sale and brokerage
of organs abroad. The law also ended funding, through the health
insurance system, of transplants in China for Israeli nationals.

Prof. Jacob Lavee, head of the heart transplants unit at the Sheba
Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, in his contribution to the book “State
Organs,” explains this law as a reaction to transplant abuse in China.
The Israeli High Court supported the decision as well.

In 2010, Matas and his colleague, David Kilgour, were nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize by Canadian MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj and Balfour
Hakak, chairman of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel.

Matas, who has been focusing for years on anti-Semitism combat,
explains why he is putting so much to investigate the forced organ
harvesting in China now.

“Once I had come to the conclusion that innocents, prisoners of
conscience, were being killed for their organs, I could not just shelve
the report David Kilgour and I had written and do nothing. The wrong
called out for a remedy. As a human rights activist and advocate, as
well as a researcher and writer, I began to campaign for that remedy.”

France is considering
proposed legislation to follow the Israeli example and prevent its
citizens from going to China for organ transplants. But many countries
have not taken any real measures to fight these crimes in China.

Matas says that he, as well as other people of conscience around the
globe, “must work to put in place to prevent abuses of organ transplant
abuse, as well as to bring to justice perpetrators of that abuse."

About Me

As an avid human rights activist and member of the China Freedom Blog Alliance, I focus mainly on safeguarding the rights of the Chinese people who are deprived of basic freedom under the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party.